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Medical Treatments: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what level of recurrent funding has been identified by NHS England to fund the recommendations of new treatments considered by NHS England’s next Clinical Priorities Advisory Group Prioritisation m

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Mar 2026
Target answer date
19 Mar 2026
Answer
25 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what level of recurrent funding has been identified by NHS England to fund the recommendations of new treatments considered by NHS England’s next Clinical Priorities Advisory Group Prioritisation m

  2. 19 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England is not able to provide the level of recurrent funding identified at this point to support the next Clinical Priorities Advisory Group prioritisation meeting. This would risk disclosing commercially confidential information.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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